Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, October 8
After seven hours of hot chase in the sugarcane fields of Valmikinagar Tiger reserve in West Champaran district, the three years old tiger identified as T 105 was shot dead by the shooters hired by the forest department on Saturday noon.
Maneater tiger had killed about 12 people in the adjoining villages in last 25 days, two persons, a mother and her son were killed by tiger this morning when they had gone to collect fodder for their animals.
On Friday evening, the principal secretary of forest department, Arwind KUmar Chaudhury was authorised by the Tiger Conservation Authority to shoot the man eater. Forest officials who had earlier engaged experts from Jharkhand and Telangana to tranquilise the tiger had failed. This morning experts from neighbouring Nepal were called to shoot the tiger. Nepal is 10 km away from Valmikinagar Tiger reserve.
The tiger was located inside a sugarcane field under Govardhan police station,Over 400 forest and police staff combed the area and four elephants with professional shooters of the special task force were pressed into service in the jungles. After seven hours of chase, tiger was found with Bets (killed human beings) in Balua range of the Tiger reserve. From the elephants, the STF shooters fired four rounds, killing the man eater in the jungle itself.
Maneater had strayed into the neighbouring villages following territorial clashes in the jungles with other tigers.The wild animal had lifted a girl Bagdi Kumari from her house at Dumri village when she was sleeping.This was the first human kill by the tiger and in the last 48 hours,it killed four human beings,including a mother and her son.
This was the first action of killing a tiger which turned man eater in Bihar. Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve has 40 tigers in its jungles, according to the last census conducted in 2018.
